JJ roCks! After the orientation camp my perspective of JJ took a dramatic 180 degrees rotation! The thing that left me with the deepest impression was not the games.. not the cheers nor dances.. but the PEOPLE! Everyone was so amiable and erm.. (lost for words) simply nice. Not implying that the rest of the events were bad.. they were GREAT! Cheering took up quite a big portion of the whole camp and the dances stirred the entire contingent into a wild frenzy. Even those seemingly shy and introvert kind of people joined in! That's the JJ spirit! haha.. To end it all, we had a mass dance again and more cheers! HAha.. That day, everyone left JJ.. forgetting we were once strangers.
To backtrack a little, our zone had a combined cell group meeting on thursday.. and i was to share my testimony. haha was really excited about that! When Sis Jerblinn announced for me to go up on stage, i went.Till then everything was fine.. BUT when Sis MingHui handed the mic over to me.. i quavered a little.. i was like.. "this soft-spoken and a-bit-lack-of-confidence-when-speaking girl is going to speak to 100+ people!" Before that i could visualise myself speaking everything so nicely.. but reality was so different! With trembling hand, i took the mic from Sis MingHui.. and.. for-some biological-reason my throat was suddenly so dry. I tried to speak.. but no words came out.. haha horrible experience.. but anyway, when i finally uttered some words out.. they were all-the-words-you-can-find-in-the-thesaurus-under-the-word-"shaky".. For a moment i thought that whole chunk of words were never to be read out by me.. Some commented that i sounded like i was crying. haha.. GOSH. But thank God that was only the introduction of what i was to convey.. I tried to put away my fears and focus on what i was going to say.. As i gained 'momentum', everything just flowed out as it was during the rehearsals.. And I went on and on and on.. However when i was speaking, i knew just then that it was the Holy Spirit speaking through me and helping me through. Praise the Lord! For if it wasn't for the Holy Spirit, i think I'd be standing there, shaking and stuttering even more.. and Sis MingHui would just snatch the paper and mic away from me and read it for me, and left me standing there watching her.. haha.. Imagination went wild. but the idea is there lah. Thank God she didn't have to do that.. haha.. That was a traumatic but a really special experience for me. So glad that i was able to share about the marvellous works that God has done in my life! =) Hallelujah!